Allman, C.B.. Lewis Wetzel: Indian Fighter: The Life and Times of a Frontier Hero. New York: The Devin-Adair Co,, 1939, 1961.
Original Title: "The Life and Times of Lewis Wetzel" Source Medium: Book Source Quality: Excellent (?) "... originally run as a serial in The Pennsylvania Farmer in 1931. 1,100 copies were privately printed in book form the following year. In 1939, a second revised edition of 2,050 copies- enlarged to double the size of the first by the finding of additional material- was also privately issued. Copies of both these early editions are as scarce as hens teeth." note, too, however: Message #201 Sunday, March 26, 2000 Subject: George Wetzel Posted by: Bill Wetzel Message: Unfortunately, Allman's book along with several of the other books written about the Wetzel's had a degree of fiction and also mistakes. Even when they used supposedly accurate information derived from information written and gotten from descendants of the early Wetzels, Zanes and others from those times. Some of it was gotten from descendants who, because of their age and memory, gave inaccurate information. I think once you start reading Hintzen's book, you will see where a lot of the mistakes come from. Even when I was a small child in the 1930's I remember my Grandfather, Great Aunts and Uncles and others quoting information as fact that they had evidently read from early books about the Zanes and Wetzel's. I remember some of them saying
